Company Profile
SERP Institute
Company Overview
Deep and reciprocal connections between practice and research:
SERP stimulates innovation in education through sustained collaborations among distinguished researchers, educators, and designers. SERP partnerships expand the capacity for continuous improvement while remaining mindful of what teachers do, how schools operate, and how students learn.
Company History
Between 1997 and 2003, the National Research Council hosted three committees that considered different aspects of whether, and how, a focused program of research and development could improve teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. The first report, released in 1999 and authored by the Committee on a Feasibility Study for a Strategic Education Research Program, was titled Improving Student Learning: A Strategic Plan for Education Research and Its Utilization. It identified a set of topics the committee judged to be of crucial importance for improving student learning – questions that, if answered, could be expected to provide substantial guidance in improving teaching and learning. The second report, Strategic Education Research Partnership, proposes a design and governance structure for an enterprise capable of developing and carrying out a coordinated plan for a large scale, sustained program of research and development focused on educational practice. And the third report, Learning and Instruction: A SERP Research Agenda, provides an illustrative blueprint for a program of work on learning and instruction that a SERP enterprise might undertake.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Establishing the SERP Institute as an independent 501(c)(3)
National Academies – 2005
John and Cynthia Reed Foundation – 2004
Creation of the SERP-BPS field site; launch of the middle school literacy and internal coherence work
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation – 2005 to 2006 and 2006 to 2019
Spencer Foundation – 2005 to 2006 and 2007 to 2009
John and Cynthia Reed Foundation – 2008
Carnegie Corporation – 2005 to 2011
Department of Education, IES (subaward through Harvard University) – 2009 to 2013
Department of Education, IES – 2010 to 2015
Creation of the SERP-SFUSD site; launch of middle school math and science
S.D.Bechtel Jr. Foundation – 2006 to 2011
Intel Foundation – 2007 to 2011
Department of Education, IES (subaward through University of California, Berkeley, BEAR Center) – 2010 to 2013
Creation of the SERP-MSAN field site; launch of Algebra project
Goldman Sachs Foundation – 2006 to 2010
John and Cynthia Reed Foundation – 2008
Department of Education, IES – 2010 to 2013
Exploration of a SERP field site in the Oakland Unified School District
S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation – 2010
Building the SERP Infrastructure
Carnegie Corporation – 2008 to 2010
Discretionary Support
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – 2006 to 2010
Haan Foundation for Children – 2009
Building multimedia capacity and Word Generation website
Lowenstein Foundation – 2007 to 2009
Noyce Foundation – 2009
Adapting SERP work for other districts
Carnegie Corporation (Subaward through the University of Texas, Dana Center) – 2008 to 2011